4962. Fact

There is a certain species of kangaroo that is only 2.5 centimetres long when it is born

4963. Fact

The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometres away

4964. Fact

The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts

4965. Fact

The little overhang of bone and feathers over an eagle's eye is there to protect the sensitive eyeball from the mountain and desert sun. It's not meant to make the bird look fierce.

4966. Fact

The reason why milk is white is because it contains a protein called Casein, which is white. Milk also contains fat, which is also white

4967. Fact

Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village

4968. Fact

The following is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language: sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

4969. Fact

Studies show that couples that smoke during the time of conception have a higher chance of having a girl compared to couples that do not smoke

4970. Fact

Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.

4971. Fact

The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs

4972. Fact

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

4973. Fact

Whale hunting is strictly prohibitted throughout the entire state of Oklahoma.

4974. Fact

If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world

4975. Fact

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents! a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs - Alexander the Great, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

4976. Fact

Caterpillar means hairy cat in Old French

4977. Fact

Goats do not eat tin cans, as lampooned in cartoons. They nibble at the cans because they're after the glue on the labels.

4978. Fact

A flea can jump 150 times its size. That is the same as a person able to jump up 1,000 feet in the air

4979. Fact

A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.

4980. Animal Facts

Over 100 million years ago, crocodiles were twice the size they are now – up to 12 metres (40 feet) long – and could eat dinosaurs.

4981. Fact

In 1755, the first Canadian post office opened in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The fist Deputy Postmaster General was American inventor Benjamin Franklin who was later dismissed for sympathizing with the American revolutionary cause

4982. Fact

Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam

4983. Fact

No two spider webs are the same.

4984. Fact

Spiders have transparent blood.

4985. Animal Facts

A head louse can lay 200–300 eggs during its life of around thirty days.The eggs only take five to ten days to hatch and start feeding.

4986. Fact

Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost

4987. Fact

Harrison Ford has a species of spider named after him.

4988. Fact

In Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan 'Finger-lickin' good' came out as 'Eat your fingers off.'

4989. Fact

It is estimated that by the end of 2000, there has been 142,600 tonnes of gold mined in the world

4990. Fact

Taurine, the main ingredient in Red Bull, is an extract of the stomach lining of cows

4991. Fact

The best selling chocolate syrup in the world is Hershey

4992. Fact

Commercially flavored coffee beans are flavored after they are roasted and partially cooled to around 100 degrees. Then the flavors applied, when the coffee beans' pores are open and therefore more receptive to flavor absorption.

4993. Fact

Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

4994. Fact

If your shoes squeak, it simply means that two layers of leather in the sole are rubbing together. Driving a tack through the sole will often remove the squeak.

4995. Animal Facts

Goliath birdeating spiders can grow to the size of a dinner plate and kill small birds.

4996. Fact

Ostriches swallow pebbles to aid in indigestion.

4997. Fact

The Lone Ranger's real name is John Reid.

4998. Fact

Romans, in the third century, believed that the lemon was an antidote for all poisons

4999. Fact

All swans in England are the property of the queen or king

5000. Fact

U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.

5001. Fact

Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters

5002. Fact

40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans.

5003. Fact

A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.

5004. Fact

If you head directly south from the west coast of Florida, you will actually pass South America on the west side of the continent.

5005. Fact

The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.

5006. Fact

Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents.

5007. Fact

Alaska's annual 1,149 Iditarod race commemorates the 1925 Race for Life when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.

5008. Fact

In Kansas it is illegal to catch bullfrogs in a tomato patch.

5009. Fact

In the 14th century, the Arabs started to cultivate coffee plants. The first commercially grown and harvested coffee originated in the Arabian Peninsula near the port of Mocha.

5010. Fact

Napoleon was terrified of cats.

5011. Fact

Female condoms were initially all made of polyurethane, but newer versions may be made of nitrile or latex.

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